Language:
English
Pages:
6 pages :
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
2001
Keywords:
Wallerstein, Anton,
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Wallerstein, Paula,
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Wallerstein family.
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St. Louis (Ship)
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United States.
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Bar mitzvah.
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Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
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Kristallnacht, 1938.
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Orthodox Judaism.
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World War, 1939-1945.
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Belgium.
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Cuba.
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Fürth (Bavaria, Germany)
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United States Emigration and immigration.
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Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Brief description of orthodox family background. His mother Paula, nee Rau, was a student at Heidelberg University prior to her marriage. His parents got married in 1926. The family lived with his father's mother in a six-room apartment and kept a kosher home. The author's younger sister Edith was born in 1932. Julius attended the "Juedische Realschule" and had friendly relationships with non-Jewish children. Recollections of the Night of the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) in 1938. His father was forced to hand over the jewelry store of the family to Nazi authorities. Experiences of antisemitic attacks. Preparations to emigrate. The family left for Cuba on May 13, 1939 on board of the St. Louis departing from Hamburg. They were refused entry to Cuba and had to return to Europe again. They stayed in Belgium and waited for their visas to the United States. Julius attended public school and was Bar Mitzvahed in the Main Synagogue in Brussles in 1940. A month later the Germans invaded Belgium. His father was sent to Camp Les Gurs in France, and the family followed him to Vichy France through an illegal passage. They finally received visas to the United States and left Marseilles in 1941. They immigrated to the United States via Casablanca and arrived in New York in January of 1942. Life in the United States. Jules was drafted into the US army in 1945 and was sent to Germany in a Counter Intelligence Mission. Return to the States in 1947. Work in an electronic company. Marriage in 1953. Move to Connecticut in 1967. Reunions of St. Louis survivors and visits to Fuerth.
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